Winseer:
Has anyone ever considered that the price for me being wrong is “nothing” - but the price for me being right and ignored is “total”?
I agree with those who say this isn’t about Religion. It’s about Politics. The Religion is just a “Front Man” for the Politics though. The politics of “wanting to get rid of anyone that doesn’t agree with one” turned into a rampaging mob, and hiding behind “Religion” and other excuses to mask the distilled political hostility beneath. If a religion cannot be criticized - then let’s make it about Terrorists. If It’s Christianity though, since that CAN be criticized, then another Front is needed. Let’s call it “Being Black”. (The world’s most solid Christians are those of the Anglican Communion, predominately Black people) If you can criticize someone’s nationality freely (Eg. Russian) then let’s make it about supporting some ally regime with unproven WMD (again!)
If it’s Politics though? - Let’s make it about American Impunity. Who ever gets to vote in the UN to enforce trade sanctions on America because AMERICA has done something that enough other nations disapprove of - that a UN resolution AGAINST America gets passed for a change…
So there we have it -
Religion cannot be criticized? - Terrorism.
Religion CAN be criticized? - Race.
Nation can be criticized? - Putin’s Russia, <insert any bull you like to reduce Russia’s reputation>
Nation cannot be criticized? - American Impunity. Nothing America can do is wrong, no matter how many get killed by a combination of all the others above.
What links it all together?
Established and entrenched political correctness at state level.
We cannot vote it out - because all parties currently support it. If they didn’t they would not be able to win elections.
The only feeble weapon we have is to make what use one can of one’s vote, futile as though that may seem.
That’s got to be better than doing nothing, ignoring everything - and hoping the hostility never comes down one’s own street.
Alas, if I seem a bit wild of late - it is because I feel the walls closing in where I live. It’s a bit beyond paranoia already, sad to say.
History has thought us many things, unfortunately the human race is incapable of learning from history. One thing that orators still don’t seem to grasp, is that change does not come because one person tells us to change, or because a small group of people manages to persuade us en masse to change. (Big) change builds up, over a length of time, and largely pushed by outside causes, mostly environmental and often aided by a slow adjusting of the masses to new conditions. Today is no different from centuries ago, the only difference is the speed with which news reaches us, and the enormous increase of news sources we are bombarded with. As then, today we can not fully trust the news we hear, because those who bring us the news, have an agenda to keep.
Today, we are told that we must oppose the ‘evil’ of Islam, because its teachings do not fit with our ‘Christian’ way of life. A thousand years ago, the peasants were told that they had to oppose the ‘evil’ of Islam, because it was the only way to heaven. And seeing as the only source of ‘news’ was the sermon at the church, that is what people did.
There is no difference between a black, Immigrant, Muslim scumbag and a white, English, Christian scumbag.
Edit to correct an unpardonable hear-here typo…